# Zombie Rumble — user reviews > 227 indexed App Store user reviews of Zombie Rumble by DU-EON YOO, rated 3.00/5 from 4 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/zombie-rumble/id6743085579/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/zombie-rumble/id6743085579.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 2 ## What do users think of Zombie Rumble? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Fun game - 🚀 No forced ads **Cons** - 🐛 Laggy performance - 💰 Locked features behind ads - 🤔 Useless research progress - 🤯 Drains phone battery **Commonly reported bugs** - Freezing login screen - Compatibility issues with older devices **Most requested features** - Remove ads for vital progression - Improve research system ## Newest reviews (17 of 227) ### 4/5 — You probably won’t see this but… *2026-02-21, version 8512* This game has lots of potential! 1. It gets exponentially harder as you go on, like before I can even summon another troop, my troop gets obliterated by the zombies turns into a zombie too (which I like; the feature) and destroys my base so I’m pretty much stuck unless I research with idea or buy upgrades with gems, some balancing could be good for the game, I pretty much have to watch 30 ads just to upgrade a few times, and this brings me to point 2. 2. Like somebody suggested (forgot name :/ ) research Ideas should be able to be researched by a research that costs 0 idea and gives x amount of ideas, and I’d like to add onto that, there should be 3 buttons at the bottom of your screen, 1st could be a shop, 2nd could be the main game, 3rd could be Mines, you can mine gems in a cave while swinging your pickaxe to kill zombies which drop gems, but there should be an option to start mining missions offline/online like the research thing, so you can choose 3 random cards, common, rare, epic, legendary, mythic, and godlike, each mission lasts 8, 24, 48, 72, 120, 168 hours with each mission giving 4x more gems than before but being rarer and rarer, chance scaling could be like 35% 30% 20% 13% 1.9% 0.1% and gem scaling could be 50, 200, 800, 3,200 12,800 51,200. 3. Everyone seems to complain running your game having their phones overheating or feeling like volcanoes, for me it doesn’t do this, so either you fixed it or my phone handles more data in less time, but either way, it works smoothly for me currently as of right now, so thank you! ### 2/5 — TOO LONG TO LOAD *2026-01-01, version 8490* My game takes two minutes to load and that means two minutes of my life wasted waiting for the interstic logo to go away. Other than that it turns my tablet into the surface of the sun, drains your battery,yes even on the loading screen ### 2/5 — your application issue *2026-01-01, version 8490* When I press this app it's just crash and won't let me play ahh ### 1/5 — Didn’t load at all *2025-11-12, version 8482* I deleted the app restarted my tablet I did everything it would now load ### 2/5 — Game not loading *2025-11-07, version 8482* If you fix the bug where the game is not loading I will rated five stars ### 1/5 — Slow *2025-11-06, version 8482* The game is very laggy. ### 3/5 — Cool game *2025-11-05, version 8482* Fun game but real laggy would 5star this game if it worked properly maybe in the next update ### 2/5 — Ehh *2025-11-03, version 8470* So it might be a solid game but the performance of this game isn’t great. It lags and gets freezes constantly. Im going to wait for updates and see if this game improves. ### 1/5 — AD to win 😞🤞🏻 *2025-11-03, version 8470* this game have to much ad and you can’t even play normal wave because its really hard unless you watch ad also I can’t watch ad and sometimes it gonna work but you realize it give you not thing 🤡 damit ### 4/5 — Progress locked due to bug *2025-10-29, version 8470* I can’t progress any further in the game because it won’t register that I researched the archers. I can’t get the next camp level because the game things I don’t have archers unlocked but I do ### 2/5 — 😒 *2025-10-28, version 8470* Played 15 seconds. Way too laggy for me. Immediately deleted ### 1/5 — 90 SECEOND ADS *2025-10-25, version 8470* I wanted to unlock the stone thrower and it was THE 2ND UNIT OF THE GAME AND THE ONLY I COULD UNLOCK WAS BY WATCHING A AD. So i pressed thinking it would be a 10 secoend ad or 20 but NO, IT WAS A 90 SECEOND AD! THIS IS SUCH A MONEY HUNGRY GAME, IF I WERE YOU DON’T DOWNLOAD THE GAME I’M PRETTY SURE THE TOP COMMENTS ARE BOTS DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS GAME. ### 2/5 — Needs to be optimized better *2025-10-25, version 8470* It could be a fun game to play if it didn’t make my phone lag like crazy. Not even 5 minutes into playing it, my phone had to restart due to the game crashing my phone, and nothing was better afterwards. Phone started to overheat too, not sure why that’s happening since the graphics are really simple. ### 1/5 — Need to watch ads to progress *2025-10-20, version 8446* During the stages of progression, you have to watch a minute and a half long ad in order to get the next base upgrade. The game moves super slow, forcing you to watch an ad where it gives you a 10 minute timer on double time speed, which just looks like a regular game speed. There are no random pop-ups, but you’re forced to watch ads in order to progress taking away the fun. ### 1/5 — Terrible. Don’t waste your time. *2025-10-19, version 8446* If I could give a no star I would. Couldn’t even go past tutorial. Bugged on tutorial. ### 4/5 — Fun game, but turns your phone into the sun *2025-10-09, version 8446* I really love this game, but everytime i play, my phone gets super hot even with my CASE on it. It also drains my battery to the point where its down 5% just when i quickly check my things. I have an IPhone 14 so its not just my phone. If you guys could find a way to fix that, 5 stars. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2025-10-06, version 8446* Saw this game on an add and I actually thought it would be fun I have tried redownloading it twice and every time I launch it, all of shows is a black screen with “INTERESTICK” in the middle. I have given it time to work and done everything I can think of and it’s never worked. Sad that the game just straight up doesn’t work, because I really did want to try it ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Booooring *2026-05-10, version 8530* I’ve been able to beat lvl 30(the max lvl) since I broke the 1860’s era. And I’m nowhere near the best upgrades lol. It’s impossible to upgrade anymore unless I collect a free idea a day for a month straight or pay. It’s not worth the time anymore sadly. ### 1/5 — Can’t get in *2026-01-11, version 8511* I can’t play the game I’m stuck loading I think it’s my WiFi😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 ### 1/5 — … *2025-12-23, version 8490* I can’t even play the game because of the lagging ### 1/5 — doesn’t work or load *2025-12-21, version 8490* Bad ### 1/5 — Disappointment *2025-12-06, version 8490* Way too laggy you need a jet to run this theres better games out there aswell ### 1/5 — Unplayable *2025-12-04, version 8490* Can’t even load into the game. ### 1/5 — To much lag *2025-11-22, version 8490* It legged my phone to the point I could barely close the game ### 1/5 — Game is not that good *2025-11-19, version 8482* Right after download the game is practically unplayable not only does it lag super hard it even shut my iphone14 down. Completely black screened me and I had to hard reset my phone just to get back into it ### 1/5 — Intense lag whenever I downloaded the game *2025-11-15, version 8482* I downloaded this game and it was extremely laggy. I tried to exit out of it and it didn’t let me I had to restart my phone to get onto the home screen. I deleted it and downloaded it again and it did the same thing. I didn’t even get to play it before my phone just started bugging out. ### 1/5 — Not fun *2025-11-14, version 8482* Don’t waste your time ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — You probably won’t see this but… *2026-02-23, version 8512* This game has lots of potential! 1. It gets exponentially harder as you go on, like before I can even summon another troop, my troop gets obliterated by the zombies turns into a zombie too (which I like; the feature) and destroys my base so I’m pretty much stuck unless I research with idea or buy upgrades with gems, some balancing could be good for the game, I pretty much have to watch 30 ads just to upgrade a few times, and this brings me to point 2. 2. Like somebody suggested (forgot name :/ ) research Ideas should be able to be researched by a research that costs 0 idea and gives x amount of ideas, and I’d like to add onto that, there should be 3 buttons at the bottom of your screen, 1st could be a shop, 2nd could be the main game, 3rd could be Mines, you can mine gems in a cave while swinging your pickaxe to kill zombies which drop gems, but there should be an option to start mining missions offline/online like the research thing, so you can choose 3 random cards, common, rare, epic, legendary, mythic, and godlike, each mission lasts 8, 24, 48, 72, 120, 168 hours with each mission giving 4x more gems than before but being rarer and rarer, chance scaling could be like 35% 30% 20% 13% 1.9% 0.1% and gem scaling could be 50, 200, 800, 3,200 12,800 51,200. 3. Everyone seems to complain running your game having their phones overheating or feeling like volcanoes, for me it doesn’t do this, so either you fixed it or my phone handles more data in less time, but either way, it works smoothly for me currently as of right now, so thank you! ### 5/5 — Game is fun to play *2025-12-27, version 8490* The game is really fun and good for a indie game and is weld made it doesn’t throw ads in your face the ads for the games don’t lie it’s actually what it’s shows in the ads and all the other complaints about the game seem to be fixed ### 5/5 — Good game but *2025-12-05, version 8490* Please add muskets or Flintlocks from the beginning like the American Revolution or American Civil War muskets ### 5/5 — Tips for new players!! *2025-10-03, version 8446* Round one, your camp can survive on its own. You earn coins over time. Doesn’t matter how long a round lasts. So if you can get a zombie to follow your starter guy around, you can keep the round going longer. What you do is aggro a zombie away from camp, then direct your single character from the top to bottom of the map and back without letting him pause and continue fighting, you can grind up enough coins to upgrade your camp and buy high quality soldiers. Archers are great units, but alone, won’t stop the tank enemies from attacking the base so you need a melee unit to battle them. Tanks spawn every 5 levels. Just 1 at lvl 5, usually 2 on lvl 10. Lvl’s 15 and 20 have multiple tanks. 21-24 will have random spawn tanks throughout the waves, normally they all spawn closer to the end of the waves. Lvl’s 25 and 30 have swarms of tanks at the end, but no spawns in between. Each new map provides 1 additional coin/spawn. Removing ads unlocks permanent speed adjustment. Instead of a video for x amount of time at x2 speed, you can pick .75, 1, 1.25, 1.5 and 2x speeds. Every time you go to the shop and buy an item that isn’t free, you get 500 gems from the reward thingy. Shop has bundles. Say you need research points. 2 for 2,000 gems or 10 for 10,000 gems. If you buy the 10 pack, you’ll get 1 reward for 500 gems for buying an item, if you bought 5 of the 2 packs, you’d earn the 500 gems reward 5 times. Every leader level unlocks a new stat you can upgrade, both on the main menu and in battle. Upgrades bought with gems at the main menu are permanent, in battle upgrades reset at the end of the map. !!!! You do not need to upgrade to each camp in battle. the first upgrade cost 150 coins, second cost 300, then 500, 900, 1,400, 2,000.. etc. If you have the basic base and 2000 coins, you can go straight to the 2000 base. Each subsequent base upgrade gives you an additional 10 percent income per spawn. So to maximize your base income, upgrade to the highest base unlocked as quickly as possible, but skip some upgrades. That same 2,000 coin base can cost you 2,000 coins, or 5,250 coins. Just depends on how you choose to upgrade to it. You earn leader experience from battles, and it gets slow and Grindy towards the max level. I’ve been entering an end game map, using the skip feature to skip to wave six and lose to get quick exp. ### 5/5 — A fun game *2025-09-14, version 8434* I’d like to say this game is great. It takes a new and fresh approach on the zombie, strategy genre and it doesn’t fail to impress. All the fun I had making new strategies, unlocking new units made this game a great gem to find. Not to mention the beautiful graphics and sounds that made this something that was actually engaging. All bugs I encountered were quickly resolved. The only issue I have is progression stops. Once you have no research points left on a hard level it becomes more of a grind than a job, jumping in to grab 1 research point a day then leave. And in the later game once units cost significantly more to unlock it can take a long time to finally conquer a level. So my suggestion is to be able to get research points on the battlefield just like gems, this would help to speed up the process of progress stops. ### 5/5 — So Fun *2025-08-31, version 8419* So I love that u can research battle and if u lose u don’t lose everything ### 5/5 — Error loading screen *2025-08-24, version 8419* I'm really lost track of time on this game my phone powered off and now I can't load the game I'm on IPhone pro max ### 5/5 — Please fix💔 *2025-08-21, version 8419* When I open the app now nothing loads and my phone over heats and start moving slow ### 5/5 — Amazing game concept - just needs some pacing polish *2025-08-02, version 8413* great fun game with a good concept!! I hope the developers work on the pacing of the game. The current battle system feels a little unrewarding and a little long. I think 30 waves is too long. The start of each battle also takes a while to accumulate enough coins- would be good to have a ability to have starting coins! Love the game despite this just think it could be amade to play a little quicker!! ### 5/5 — good game *2025-07-02, version 8400* its a good game but seems poorly optimized in the way that it causes my phone to heat up a bunch --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-07-25.*